@gearoid wrote:

Was reading this post was a change made in a particular version that addressed sweet32 ?

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@STiNGER wrote:

I hope I selected the right category for my discussion.

Here it is: I want to introduce Discourse at work.

I work in scientific research and I feel Discourse can help us organize things better.

Before I do, I want to be prepared for inevitable questions about the "use case" for Discourse.

Questions such as (but not limited to):

1. Why do we need Discourse? We are using email right now and that keeps people informed.

2. What advantages can we expect from using Discourse? What does it bring that we do not have right now?

3. Doesn't this introduce redundancy? Like people discussing things in Discourse that are really meant for email and vice versa?

If you have arguments for the one over the other then I would be happy to hear them from you.

Thanks!

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@jako512 wrote:

Is it somehow possible to hook event when infinite scrolling loads another page (next 20 posts/topics) ?
I need to track pagination of posts/topics in our analytics tools.

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@Emilio_F_Castillo wrote:

Background, we are moving from vBulletin to Discourse.org.

We recently signed up for a free trial with Discourse.org. During the trial, we've setup categories, and invited key members of our forum to claim their username on the new platform. Naturally, conversations have started to occur and we're off to a solid start, with new members already posting. The old forum on vBulletin is still up and running but I've posted an announcement that we are moving the platform to Discourse, so naturally several community members have already jumped ship.

Now, we are ready to migrate our data into Discourse.

But Discourse is telling us that when we migrate the data in, that it will WIPE OUT all that we have built on the new account...including usernames etc! - which means we would have to ask our key members to again sign up for a new account on Discourse. We don't want to do that and I need to understand the consequences of not starting over again. What impact will there be if I simply do not bring in the migration into the forum.

1) How can I still benefit from the vast amount of content on vBulletin now that we are on the new platform? can this be integrated or brought over as blog post on our website instead? that way it is available and archived on our site - even if it is not available on the forum?

2) Or can we simple pick the top 100 conversations and replicate or introduce them manually into the new forum? This way the content will be on the new forum, but it would have gotten there as new post not via a migration. Obviously we cannot do this for all topics as there are topics dating back to 2006.

3) for SEO purposes, I know we want to bring in our content. The question becomes if we need to bring it over as "seed" to the new forum, to jump start it and keep it going, or if we should bring the content over and convert it to blog post or page content on our website and then LINK the forum to the content that way.

We have a clean fresh looking forum now and I would like to build on it. But I am concerned that if there isn't enough content on the new platform that users who do make the move or visit looking for someone wont find it and will then leave.

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@dgadiraju wrote:

Is there any limitation on number of categories?

I am planning to create forum site with 500+ categories, is it possible with discourse?

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@fuerst wrote:

Doing a ./launcher rebuild discourse-web.yml I got this error:

Compiling css for kulturladen
rake aborted!
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::UndefinedColumn: ERROR:  column "uploaded_background_id" does not exist
LINE 1: ...categories"."updated_at" FROM "categories" WHERE (uploaded_b...
                                                             ^
: SELECT  "categories"."updated_at" FROM "categories" WHERE (uploaded_background_id IS NOT NULL)  ORDER BY updated_at desc LIMIT 1
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rack-mini-profiler-0.10.1/lib/patches/db/pg.rb:90:in `exec'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rack-mini-profiler-0.10.1/lib/patches/db/pg.rb:90:in `async_exec'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:592:in `block in exec_no_cache'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:484:in `block in log'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.7.1/lib/active_support/notifications/instrumenter.rb:20:in `instrument'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:478:in `log'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:592:in `exec_no_cache'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:584:in `execute_and_clear'
/var/www/discourse/lib/freedom_patches/fast_pluck.rb:41:in `select_raw'
/var/www/discourse/lib/freedom_patches/fast_pluck.rb:79:in `pluck'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/category.rb:108:in `last_updated_at'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/relation/delegation.rb:70:in `block in last_updated_at'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/relation.rb:302:in `scoping'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/relation/delegation.rb:70:in `last_updated_at'
/var/www/discourse/lib/sass/discourse_stylesheets.rb:163:in `digest'
/var/www/discourse/lib/sass/discourse_stylesheets.rb:153:in `stylesheet_filename'
/var/www/discourse/lib/sass/discourse_stylesheets.rb:129:in `stylesheet_fullpath'
/var/www/discourse/lib/sass/discourse_stylesheets.rb:80:in `compile'
/var/www/discourse/lib/sass/discourse_stylesheets.rb:39:in `block in compile'
/var/www/discourse/lib/sass/discourse_stylesheets.rb:36:in `synchronize'
/var/www/discourse/lib/sass/discourse_stylesheets.rb:36:in `compile'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:51:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:50:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:50:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rails_multisite-1.0.6/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:126:in `block in each_connection'


/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rails_multisite-1.0.6/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:124:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rails_multisite-1.0.6/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:124:in `each_connection'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:44:in `block in <top (required)>'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:130:in `block in <top (required)>'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-11.2.2/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/bin/bundle:22:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/bundle:22:in `<main>'
PG::UndefinedColumn: ERROR:  column "uploaded_background_id" does not exist
LINE 1: ...categories"."updated_at" FROM "categories" WHERE (uploaded_b...

I'm at the version: tests-passed and using a multi site installation with separate web and data containers.

Looks like the database column got added 2 days ago:

Is there any way to upgrade the database scheme manually so I get my sites up again?

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@djcyry wrote:

Hello ,
What do you think guys ..
Its ok to start a community for the people who buy products on amazon , alliexpress etc with discourse? A community for discounts - offers - reviews - opinions about products ...etc
I have been watching for nodebb,flarum,discourse and i think discourse is better .
Some ideas or opinions about this "project" ?
Thanks in advance 🏻

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@pfaffman wrote:

I did an import of some Wordpress data to an already active site. I thought it would be a Good Idea to put the site in read-only mode while I was doing the import so that people wouldn't add data to the site that would get erased when the site + import_data was uploaded.

That's a Bad Idea. Now I can't log in. On a self-hosted site, you can fix this from the rails console, on a hosted site, however, you're stuck (I just emailed team). I tried /users/admin-login, but it can't work either (obvious in retrospect).

This doesn't seem like that much of an edge case, shouldn't there be a way to freeze a site that still allows admins to log in?

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@alexande-ru wrote:

Hello!
After upgrade to discourse-1.7.0.beta8 (from source) i get this error:

MiniRacer::RuntimeError
Showing /home/youwiki/discourse/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb where line #25 raised:
SyntaxError: unknown: Line 93: Key conflict with sibling node
Extracted source (around line #115): @output = klass.v8.eval(generate_source(scope))

Error with calling javascript_include_tag.

I add gem 'coffee-script-source', '1.8.0' to gem file (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28760633/ruby-on-rails-errors-with-javascript-include-tag), but have not results..

Have you any ideas how to solve it?

Thanks for great engine!

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@bholst wrote:

I hope that what I'm asking makes sense... Is it possible to lock a category from being able to see the threads, but yet still show that it (the category) exists?

Basically, we have a category that will be fairly popular, but I want new people to have incentive to actually sign-up or get to level 1, etc.

I want the category to show on the list, but I don't want them to be able to view the contents. Is that even possible at this point?

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@Nigel_Sng wrote:

As titled,

can a anonymous user like a post? or is there a setting to be enabled for them to like posts?

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@Denis_Didkovsky wrote:

We follow the info on

and whant to set us a picture as badge

by input in image url like http://example.com/uploads/default/original/1X/bc4ae4444b90aabe97ff09c4bef306f84653f301.png

or short one uploads/default/original/1X/bc4ae4444b90aabe97ff09c4bef306f84653f301.png

both are not giving the badge PICTURE in badge page (although the badge is granted)

thanks is advance

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@Matthew_Smart wrote:

Hi there. I'm not a developer, so please excuse my naivety here.

I'm exploring the option of being able to embeb an RSS feed into a category. For example, news from BBC or the latest news articles from our website I'd like shown straight into the community for them to be able to comment on.

Is this easily done?

Thanks in advance!

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@erlend_sh wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Discourse vs. email -- Pros & Cons:

Comments welcome!

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When should we use Discourse instead of plain email or a mailing list?

Discourse excels at group conversations. Email is still great for 1-to-1 and 1-to-a-few exchanges. But when these conversations attract even more people and go on for a extended period of time, email chains become increasingly unwieldy. Mailing lists were invented to remedy these issues, but it was a bit like trying to build better horse carriages as opposed to inventing cars.

There are still some valid use cases for mailing lists, but we firmly believe Discourse is the better tool more often than not, because...

Links

Discourse makes it easy to link to and from different topics. The participants of a topic that's been linked to will receive a notification about an incoming link. Furthermore, every topic maintains a clean list of all incoming links.

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Lastly, while Discourse works great for internal communities, it was designed first and foremost for public discussion. And on the world wide web, links let you be part of the conversation & knowledge network at large:

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.

Lower bar to entry

Choose whichever onboarding process works best for your community:

• Social logins (Google+, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub etc.)
• Single Sign-On with your organisation's custom login provider
• Invitation links
• Whitelisting of company emails.

Moderation controls

Prevent spam and bad behaviour with crowd-powered moderation flags.

Reduce generic comments

Think of all the times you've muttered "mhm" or merely nodded your head in agreement. While disagreement usually benefits from elaboration, agreement just requires clear acknowledgement. Discourse attempts to discourage "me too" comments with Likes so you can nod your head in virtual space without risking neck injury.

Editing

Once you've sent an email, there's no going back. Your typos are forever recorded in history, and the only way to correct a particularly bad mistake is to send yet another email.

Thankfully Discourse, like most other modern communication platforms, allows editing. Post edits are clearly called out and readers can even look back at previous revisions to clear up any confusion that may arise.

Discoverability

If your organisation requires more than one mailing list, you know you're in trouble. Joining individual mailing lists is a pain, and figuring out which are essential, sort-of-essential and non-essential reading takes a long time to figure out.

Try instead:

• Categories with granular tracking controls
  

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• A dedicated Unread page for topics you're following, and a New page for brand new topics you've never seen before.

• A Top page for newcomers to sift through the most popular discussions for the past year/quarter/month/week, on the site as a whole or in specific categories.

Search friendly

On-site

Searcing through content of multiple mailing lists is rarely an option; even getting to search through a single mailing list is a rare luxury. Usually you'll have to make due with a public archive and some clever Googling.

Discourse supports full text search with a great variety of custom variables. Do a quick inline search or use our Advanced Search to pin down who said what when.

World wide web

As mentioned, Discourse excels in public spaces. Search engines see Discourse topics in an easily crawlable format. The multitude of outgoing and incoming links on a forum makes for excellent SEO juice.

FAQ

Isn't a forum community rather excessive for an early stage project?

It absolutely is! We openly recommend against starting a community with Discourse until you've built up the critical mass needed for a brand new community to be successful. But in the meantime, the option isn't usually "start a mailing list". Practically every collaboration tool today comes equipped with some type of messaging board (see GitHub, Kickstarter, Deviantart etc.).

We highly recommend engaging with the people where they're already at before trying to convince a core following to follow you to a space of your own. Not all platforms will let you export your discussion data (they should!) but usually you can get away with some copy & paste magic to take your key takeaways with you.

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Mailing list pros

• Can run on modest hardware
• Works well when everyone needs to see everything.
• Firmly established workflow for most IT professionals

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@sjmscott wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Misleading email rejection when reply permissions not available:

Currently, the rejected email gets buried in my gmail server. I have no idea who is trying to respond. Typically, I create a read-only post and invite people to respond in another related topic.

1. Good: Is there anyway to change the email to read this is a "read only topic?" so people don't respond. I just want "visit topic" and not reply to this email.

2. Better: Is there a way that the rejected emails can end up in a moderator mailbox?

3. Best: is there a way to put the rejected emails into some sort of "holding pen" i.e. uncategorized? I would like to move the responses to another category for discussion.

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@pfaffman wrote:

It has several hundred lines of text, most of which mean nothing. If there is an error, to most people, it looks just like the ones helpfully saying "oh, everything is great! I compressed a file!"

Is there a way to reduce the output?

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@viet wrote:

Discourse has intergration with many social login methods already, and it's very nice.

Can it intergrates with e-commerce platforms like Shopify so users of an existing e-commerce community can login via the same account everywhere for that company?

Example: http://forums.envato.com uses the same login everywhere throughout their site.

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@Jani_Monoses wrote:

Is there a way to allow non-admin moderators to send bulk invites? The use case is the forum having several disjoint groups - mappings of geographically distinct subcommunities - of users each with their own moderator(s)/owner(s) who invite to that group and create their categories. When creating such new groups it would be convenient to add a single owner and let them bulk invite the rest.

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@enigmaty wrote:

Currently I am importing a big forum with limited hardware resources. What I want is to kill rails, redis, and sidekiq servers to make use of the most of the memory while importing the forum.

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@estockly wrote:

There is a bug with displaying videos from Dropbox using the dropbox.com/s/ format. That is the format dropbox uses for sharing specific files, and it works in Discourse for all other kinds of files. For video files rather than display the video in the posts with the option to play within the post, Discourse only displays the video's control bar.

Is this an issue with the set-up of the forum or is it an issue with Discourse displaying videos using the dropbox.com/s/ style link?

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